Angry Drunk Bureaucrat:James!: Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Aarontology: I thought that aside from the canon laws, Italian law covered most things due to the nature of the treaty between the Vatican and Italy?

Wait? Am I allowed to own a canon in Vatican City or not? I need to know prego.

I don't think pregnant women should be around heavy artillery.

Well, being at the receiving end of a shot did get them into trouble in the first place.

Pope Francis overhauled the laws that govern the Vatican City State on Thursday, criminalizing leaks of Vatican information and specifically listing sexual violence, prostitution and possession of child pornography as crimes against children that can be punished by up to 12 years in prison.

Wait, they criminalized leaks of Vatican information? What if that information is important for people to know, like covering up child molestations?

/"up to 12 years in prison" seems pretty weak for sexual violence, prostitution and possession of child porn

Nabb1:An artist's conception of a FARK thread on Catholics/Catholicism.

A study from the 90s at The Catholic University of America (Dr. Glen Johnson, I believe). showed that Catholics are more likely to perceive anti-Catholic bias in media articles even if no bias was present.

A study from the 90s at The Catholic University of America (Dr. Glen Johnson, I believe). showed that Catholics are more likely to perceive anti-Catholic bias in media articles even if no bias was present.

So, yeah.

I'm an atheist, and Fark is so virulently anti-Catholic sometimes it's astounding.

Sargun:Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Nabb1: An artist's conception of a FARK thread on Catholics/Catholicism.

A study from the 90s at The Catholic University of America (Dr. Glen Johnson, I believe). showed that Catholics are more likely to perceive anti-Catholic bias in media articles even if no bias was present.

So, yeah.

I'm an atheist, and Fark is so virulently anti-Catholic sometimes it's astounding.

I thought it was anti-Jew? Or possibly anti-Muslim.

/I'd say the place is fairly anti-religion, I don't think it's limited to or confined to your particular favorite

A study from the 90s at The Catholic University of America (Dr. Glen Johnson, I believe). showed that Catholics are more likely to perceive anti-Catholic bias in media articles even if no bias was present.

I'm an atheist, and I was raised Catholic, and there's a whole lot of reasons to be anti-Catholic. It's a "church" that has its own country, and has a huge amount of influence in many third-world countries where it gets to dictate laws that affect human rights and health care. They have had slaves in Ireland up into the 1980's, and have worked for decades to cover up abuse by their leadership, silence critics, fight prosecution, and just flat out doing everything they could to prevent exposure and liability rather than deal with the problem. On top of all that they make billions and don't have to pay taxes, then try various financial moves to move money from parishes that are liable for huge claims so they don't have to pay out. It's despicable.

Not just Fark either. It's a sickness. I have many many Catholic friends and they are amazed at the degree of anti-Catholic hate online these days.

Awwwww, poor babies. How about this: you remove that giant child-raping beam from your eye, and we'll remove the not-being-happy-with-people-supporting-a-group-that pretty-much-openly-abuses-said-people's-own-children mote from ours? That work for you? I mean I'm sorry I care more for your own children than you yourself do, but I guess I'm just a hateful Satanist for not gleefully offering the little tykes up as an offering,

I'm sorry if anyone here is Catholic. I'm not sorry if you are offended, I'm actually sorry - just by the fact that you're Catholic.It's got to be one of the most ludicrous farking beliefs ever. Like these vampire priests sink their twin fangs of guilt and sin into you as a child and suck your joy of life out of you the rest of your farking existence.

KeithLM:I'm an atheist, and I was raised Catholic, and there's a whole lot of reasons to be anti-Catholic. It's a "church" that has its own country, and has a huge amount of influence in many third-world countries where it gets to dictate laws that affect human rights and health care. They have had slaves in Ireland up into the 1980's, and have worked for decades to cover up abuse by their leadership, silence critics, fight prosecution, and just flat out doing everything they could to prevent exposure and liability rather than deal with the problem. On top of all that they make billions and don't have to pay taxes, then try various financial moves to move money from parishes that are liable for huge claims so they don't have to pay out. It's despicable.

You know that your factual error makes your point completely invalid right? They had slaves in Ireland up to 1996, not the 1980s. You deprived the Church of 16 whole years of slave-owning, and you didn't even compensate it for its loss.

Sargun:Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Nabb1: An artist's conception of a FARK thread on Catholics/Catholicism.

A study from the 90s at The Catholic University of America (Dr. Glen Johnson, I believe). showed that Catholics are more likely to perceive anti-Catholic bias in media articles even if no bias was present.

So, yeah.

I'm an atheist, and Fark is so virulently anti-Catholic sometimes it's astounding.

Thats because about half of fark had been diddled at some point by a catholic preist.

fun fact. My father went to a catholic school as a youth. The head priest. Father feely.

A study from the 90s at The Catholic University of America (Dr. Glen Johnson, I believe). showed that Catholics are more likely to perceive anti-Catholic bias in media articles even if no bias was present.

So, yeah.

or maybe the researchers were just less likely to perceive anti-catholic bias, and incorrectly identified it as not being present.

Sargun:Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: Nabb1: An artist's conception of a FARK thread on Catholics/Catholicism.

A study from the 90s at The Catholic University of America (Dr. Glen Johnson, I believe). showed that Catholics are more likely to perceive anti-Catholic bias in media articles even if no bias was present.

So, yeah.

I'm an atheist, and Fark is so virulently anti-Catholic sometimes it's astounding.

phalamir: "Awwwww, poor babies. How about this: you remove that giant child-raping beam from your eye, and we'll remove the not-being-happy-with-people-supporting-a-group-that pretty-much-openly-abuses-said-people's-own-children mote from ours? That work for you? I mean I'm sorry I care more for your own children than you yourself do, but I guess I'm just a hateful Satanist for not gleefully offering the little tykes up as an offering,"

Kali-Yuga:'m sorry if anyone here is Catholic. I'm not sorry if you are offended, I'm actually sorry - just by the fact that you're Catholic.It's got to be one of the most ludicrous farking beliefs ever. Like these vampire priests sink their twin fangs of guilt and sin into you as a child and suck your joy of life out of you the rest of your farking existence.

There are lots of funny jokes about catholicism, but absolutely none of them have ever been thought of by Bill Hicks.

Joe Paterno did the same thing at PSU but being the always humble man he didn't go making big public proclamations about it.it was more like a whisper 'hey Jerry, you can't diddle the kids in the field house anymore, do that stuff somewhere else.'

Not just Fark either. It's a sickness. I have many many Catholic friends and they are amazed at the degree of anti-Catholic hate online these days.

The Church put themselves in a position where they have become a punch line of a lot of bad jokes. It's like an alcoholic complaining about all those hateful people making jokes about them being a lush. If you don't like the bad reputation the Church has, put pressure on it to clean up its image and earn back the world's respect instead of whining about bias.

You know, that whole being judged by your works thing. I think I read it in a book somewhere.

Not just Fark either. It's a sickness. I have many many Catholic friends and they are amazed at the degree of anti-Catholic hate online these days.

Might have something to do with all the kid raping. Just a thought.

Not so much the kid raping as the Mafia-like actions to hide the kid raping from anyone else. Had they demonstrated an ounce of remorse, instead of building shell companies to hide the funds of archdioceses, attempting to hush the parents by offering them cash, slandering anyone who tried to bring their kid-raping priests to justice, and giving sermons that blamed the victims, I think folks would've been somewhat more forgiving.

Far be it from me to insert facts from tfa to point out the headline is trolling fail....

Okay, I lied. I'm doing it!

Dalla Torre stressed that just because such acts are illegal now doesn't mean they were legal before. It merely means that, 100 years ago, child pornography was not specified as a crime in either the Italian legal code or the Vatican's.

They just clarified existing law and made explicit the general "being bad people" laws that were on the books before, and buffed the penalties a bit.